About the Author

Richard Zoglin has been a writer and editor at TIME Magazine for more than 30 years, and is currently the magazine’s theater critic. He is also the author of two books: Comedy at the Edge: How Stand-up in the 1970s Changed America (Bloomsbury, 2008) and Hope: Entertainer of the Century (Simon & Schuster, 2014). He is a native of Kansas City, Mo., and graduated from the University of California at Berkeley, with a B.A. in English and a master’s degree in journalism. He lives in New York City.

My Blog

I have been thinking and writing about theater for TIME for the past 20 years. Here are some of my current thoughts about shows, trends and other things that inspire me, in the theater and beyond.